Retrato do Sr. Simas

The portrait of Sr. Simas — Adelaide Simas's husband, whose portrait was presumably commissioned alongside his wife's (wiki-Q62064724) — provides the complementary panel to the 1902 pair of portraits from the Simas family. Male portrait subjects in Visconti's work tend to show a more direct, less formally elaborate presentation than his female subjects, reflecting the conventions of the period. The Simas portrait, without a museum location recorded, may remain in private or family possession, consistent with the commissioned portrait tradition in which works remained with the commissioning family.

The male portrait's formal requirements — controlled composition, attention to professional or social identity markers in costume and setting — are met with Visconti's Post-Impressionist colour handling, which gives the sitter's face a warmth and presence that straightforward academic technique would have rendered more flatly.